Africa! The very name conjures up images of lions, elephants, jungle, drums, Tarzan and many others. The opportunity to travel to this part of the world to not only experience these first hand but also play Aussie Rules was too good to miss. The Convicts tour was a great chance to be a unique part of history as it marked the first time an Australian team would play a match of Australian football against an African team in Africa. After arriving in Johannesburg we boarded our air-conditioned coach, complete with tour guide and driver, we had hired for the trip. It [View Full Entry]

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22 Dec 2004: First time out of the country alone AND first time in Africa - apprehensive? not 'arf! But just looking out over Table Mountain, as the plane sweeps over Cape Town, the excitement is unbearable - no fear what-so-ever - I'm actually feeling rather emotional (in a happy way) at the beginning of my independence. I get the growing feeling this may be the start of the rest of my life. John and Lidia live in a very civilized part of town, Constancia, or the Cape's equivalent of Chelsea back home, nestled beneath the protective peer of the mountain [View Full Entry]

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Since leaving Cape Town I've been heading east along the Garden Route via the BazBus - a hop-on hop-off bus service that picks you up and drops you off at whatever hostel you're staying in at the next town. I think that back home in England the BazBus is pushed pretty hard by places like STA as the only safe way to travel across South Africa. Having travelled for a little while now in South Africa, I think that the security aspects of this country are slightly overstated. Obviously, there are areas which are dangerous and you shouldn't head to after [View Full Entry]

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November 2004 saw me bidding an emotional farewell to friends and family and heading off my my post-graduate travels. The initial trip that I had mooted with my uni friends Steve and Chris had fallen through - I would now be meeting the Norfolk boys in Singapore for a month long blitz through South East Asia. In their absence, I had decided to forge my own path, which eased me into the traveling way via the English speaking South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, before heading up through South East Asia with Steve and Chris, and then culminating the trip in [View Full Entry]

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Hi all - Sorry I haven’t updated in awhile. I made my way down south to Cape Town. I couldn’t resist as most people I’ve talked to have wonderful things to say about it. Plus, I got to stay with my good friend, Andrea, from Hopkins. Spent a week there and thoroughly enjoyed myself. It was a major culture shock going from Harare to Cape Town as the latter is fully developed and modernized - feels like any city in the U.S. in terms of infrastructure and available commodities. Also, it felt good to be in a very diverse city with [View Full Entry]

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Twice in one year I love it so much ! Of course catching up with one of my oldest friends and her gang make it one of my favourite places to visit. Cocktails at Greenpoint, whale watching in Hermanus, sandboarding, sundowners at Clifton, wine tours, Camps Bay beach, Table Mountain, all that shopping at Canal Walk and V&A, what's not to love about it. [View Full Entry]

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Coffee Bay - Durban southernfryPour commencer des nouvelles de mon poignet : toujours pas remis, mais ca fait pas trop mal, le plus bizarre c est surtout l espece de grincement que je sens en le bougeant. Mais je continue a mettre du gel antiinflammatoire au ketoprophene, et on ne fait rien de bien violent. A part ca, on est arrives hier soir a Durban, pleins d'images en tête sur cette ville de surfeurs et de rugby, mais c est un cliché dépassé. On est alle aujourd hui au centre-ville, assez crade et pas un blanc en [View Full Entry]

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So it's 2.05AM Sunday 30th May 2004 and there's now less than a week to go. Surrounded by every increasing piles of discarded cardboard and plastic I stumble towards departure with an ever decreasing sense of reality. I remember once writing somewhere; "it never get's weird enough for me". I guess the words themselves don't mean much, it's what they're hotwired to, things words can't do by themselves, but it feels like I'm arriving at some kind of cut-off point, a point where it all comes down to throwing onself at the mercy of the elements, and trusting those that, one [View Full Entry]

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Sunday, June 6 th 2004 It wasn't easy cramming my studio into a suitcase so it took me nearly two months and without the help of Daene, I would probably have missed the boat but I was nearly ready by the time the Safmarine driver arrived at 10.00 AM on Sunday. This was not to be the only time on Sunday I was to be grateful not to be traveling by air, but more on that later. The ship is berthed at Milnerton container terminal and boarding is no problem, until I discover that my wife hadn't packed my B [View Full Entry]

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Hey You'll, Don't have time to write much, but here are some pics from Capetown. [View Full Entry]

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